On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 09:25:52 UTC+1, T i m wrote:
not really. You missed it completely, your ego won't let you admit it & that is pretty obvious to anyone that read it. I'm done. Come back with some diy content.
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 01:47:11 -0700 (PDT), snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote:
<snip> >> >> >> > > NUT is less painless.
Yup really.
Where 'it' was a playground level 'joke' using an Americanism. Yes I
did.
I did when it was raised and I did again just then?
You could be right. Not sure how many bothered though?
Is that another joke? It sounds like one?
Who says?
BTW, it was 'd-i-y content' till you threw in yer playground /
American 'joke'. Please don't (bother to) do it again, or only come
back when it's actually funny (to an adult). ;-)
Now, if the UPS software was called 'BALL' or 'BOLOX' then *maybe*
your 'joke' would have actually been funny (again, only to under 5's
possibly). <weg>
Cheers, T i m
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:27:56 +0100, snipped-for-privacy@hayter.org (Roger Hayter)
wrote:
<snip> >> > Now, if the UPS software was called 'BALL' or 'BOLOX' then *maybe*
I think you would have to actually consider the bigger picture(s)
before you could reach that conclusion Roger [1].
Let's review what happened in this case ...
I was having a serious discussion with the grown-ups <g> and NT jumped
in with his 'joke'.
I missed that it was a joke (for reasons explained previously) and
(we) continued with the serious discussion.
Then NT jumped back in because he was 'upset' (?) because I had missed
the fact that is was supposed to be 'humour' ...
"I take it you completely missed the moment of mild humour.
Rest snipped"
And when I explained I had missed it because I didn't find such levels
of humour ('mild' in his own words) funny, to the point where I might
miss it as such, he then goes on to accuse me of some sort of egotism,
in spite of the fact I'd acknowledged I'd missed it as humour from the
beginning?
And when he had first replied with the 'joke' I missed, I asked him
how he would do it and carefully explained how it could be used.
So, as is often the case we have cause and effect and which of us had
taken the subject off topic and then had the audacity to suggest he'd
only carry on if brought back on to d-i-y, especially when every one
of my replies contained smilies to indicate how 'light hearted' *I*
was being?
In the middle of a serious / useful discussion about UPS's:
You wrote: "NUT is less painless."
NT: "sounds like a pain in the ...."
A pain in the nut to me? [2]
ROTFL ..... Bwhahahahaha ....!!! <weg>
Oh NT, you crack me up .... <rolls eyes>
Better Roger? ;-)
Cheers, T i m
[2] I didn't realise NT suffered with
monorchism? (Oh how we all laughed again ...) ;-)
[1] For nearly every other instance you might think you have found of
my 'intolerance' is more likely to be a balance of who might have a
right to impart themselves on someone else in a negative way. Like
smokers do to non smokers, cat owners do to non cat owners or a
minority of the electorate who can decide the future for the majority.
It is *they* who are demonstrating a lack of consideration and empathy
to others, not those forced to put up with it.
Sounds like the sort of rationalisation that concentration camp guards
had to do every morning. You seem to have difficulty in seeing these
offenders as actually people like yourself. This is fair enough, but
to then claim a special ability to empathise is bizarre.
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:09:33 +0100, snipped-for-privacy@hayter.org (Roger Hayter)
wrote:
How strange (and brings us very close to activating Godwin's law <g>).
I do? Ok, playing along, could you give me an example of how / where
you have seem me being an 'offender' in the same way as say smokers or
cat owners? In a real tangible way I mean, not offending someone's
sensibilities with the truth on the Internet?
I have never made any such claim Roger and you suggesting such further
emphases (to me anyway) that you still aren't willing or able to see
the bigger picture?
Cheers, T i m
On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:38:16 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave
In this (and only on this sort of thing *ever*) you are sort right.
I was having a serious / technical discussion about UPS monitoring
software and NT jumped in with something that wasn't funny (to me
anyway, even if I had got that is was supposed to be) and it's quite
likely that NT would have found configuring APCUPSD or NUT 'a pain'
and so I responded to his comment literally.
So, I did allow my RBD to guide my response when I should have used
some LBD to 'study' the scenario closer (but I wouldn't have been
bothered to etc).
But well done to you for actually getting how L/RBD might impact how
someone might interpret something (rather than your normal completely
abstract weirdo BS).
Cheers, T i m
On Thursday, 29 August 2019 11:03:36 UTC+1, T i m wrote:
and not sort left, I've seen that function somewhere.....
a bit like shift left or shift right.
Well I was reading it, although not having or much experience of such systems,
although we did have a fire here a couple of years ago when the air con failed
and the UPS overheated and set fire to a room in the library and some servers got damaged.
I tghought that was a sleep dis-order.
I'm not sure how wearing a little black dress would help but each to his/her own of course.
Happens here all the time some don't realise what's happening or whether it is or not.
From your POV you mean, that was another point I was making.
and trying to work out whether you mean someone isn't making sense or where they talking nonsense.
I did see the bit about UPS to possibley mean the postal service or perhaps the unique selling point typo.
I've had files corrupted which were being written to when a powercut occurred. Therefore I got a UPS and have never experienced the same again. I then realised since the UPS has much more output than the computer needed, I could run my lighting circuit off it aswell. My LED bulbs now last 5 years instead of 6 months. It not only removes spikes, surges, and brownouts, but it will adjust the voltage when it's wrong.
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 15:21:20 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
<snip>
Can that not depend on the UPS though? Some do provide some passive
filtering but only produce any output themselves when the power fails
('Offline').
Others are more as you describe where they are maintaining the output
themselves all the time and so can do as you say ('Online').
I believe there are pros and cons to both types. Offline consume less
energy as all they need to do is keep the battery trickle charged and
switch to the inverter output when required. There can be a switchover
delay and some equipment can be sensitive to this.
So, given that many old UPS's don't produce a very clean (non sine
wave) output, Offline UPS's can be better long term as they only
subject the equipment to such when they are called for (the equipment
running directly from the mains till that happens).
Later UPS's may produce a cleaner, more sinusoidal output etc.
Cheers, T i m
I'm considering getting a UPS for my computers, router, Raspberry Pi etc
because our village gets an inordinately large number of supply
interruptions: I've logged 5 in the last week. Typically they only last a
couple of seconds, but that is enough to make computers reboot.
I've complained to phone number 105 (for Northern Powergrid) and been told
that it's due to "work on the HV supply", "bird strike on a cable", "tree
falling on a cable" and "lightning strike" (the last even when there's not
been a storm in the area). I think it's a random excuse generator. If "bird
strike" and "falling tree" are genuine, they must be *very* unlucky for
there to be 5 power cuts since 24 August - plus all the ones before I
started keeping a note of them.
Next time I'll ask to speak to someone more senior who can tell me *why* our
village is affected so badly by power interruptions, and what Northern
Powergrid are doing to make their system more resilient to such faults.
So far I've been very lucky to avoid corrupted files, because on one
occasion I was defragging a hard disc at the time the power went off, but
being NTFS it was more resilient to corruption, though the first thing I do
after each power cut is "chkdsk /f c:" for each drive letter just in case
(and I've never yet seen it say that it has had to correct any errors).
First rule of any UPS is to check periodically that the battery is holding
its charge, and to keep the battery charged. My wife bought a UPS when she
bought a PC about 10 years ago, and we never got round to connecting or
testing the UPS for about 18 months, by which time it was out of warranty.
When I tried it, I found that the battery would not supply AC mains even for
a 60 W bulb for more than about 2 seconds :-( We should have kept it
plugged in to keep the battery charged, and tested its output every so often
by switching off the input - that would have detected dead-on-arrival and
premature failure.
Dad was given one by his local electricity supplier because they were
repeatedly interrupting his supply and when working from home that was
costing / risking his business.
Great.
I'd guess the answer to that might be 'everything we can sir' 'nothing'.
As you say, if a FS is 'journaled (I think they call it) then it
should be reasonably robust.
And flatter than a pancake I suspect?
Quite, but isn't hindsight a wonderful thing. ;-(
It's the same thing as when I go to one of my motorbikes and find the
battery flat > ruined. 'If only I had:
Taken the battery off, brought it inside and kept it on charge.
Hooked it up to a suitable solar trickle charger.
Rigged up an external socket for a temporary charger.
Run the LV side of an automatic charger out to the bike(s) ...
Ridden the bikes more frequently ... ;-(
Cheers, T i m
I think the best analogy would be a bucket with a huge hole in the bottom so
it won't hold any water.
With hindsight we should have kept the UPS and bought a new battery for it,
rather than chucking the whole thing in the skip. But then that may have
been money down the drain if the problem was a faulty charging circuit or a
faulty DC-to-AC inverter.
If I'd still had my oscilloscope I'd have looked at the output to see what
shape of waveform was being generated and how it varied as load was applied.
But that had gone to the skip a few years earlier as I never used it - and
it was bloody big and heavy to store in the loft. I remember buying it from
a back-street Army surplus shop somewhere near Cemetery Junction in Reading
soon after I got my first job.
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